‘E-manager Chronic Diseases’ project awarded prestigious ZonMw Grant
The ‘E-manager Chronic Diseases’ project, a collaboration between CAPHRI, TNO, NIVEL and the University of Twente was awarded a prestigious grant within the Innovative Medical Devices Initiative (IMDI) program of ZonMw earlier this month. The application was assigned the scores ‘very relevant’ and ‘excellent quality’. The team, led by prof. Onno van Schayck, dr. Annerika Gidding-Slok (both Research Line Optimising Patient Care), prof. Manuela Joore) and prof. Nicolaas Schaper (both Research Line Creating Value-based Health Care) will receive €1.494.650 for their research.
The project aims to develop and implement an e-manager app for a large group of patients with a chronic disease. A successful implementation can result in a task shift from the General practitioner to the General-practice-based nurse specialists and an improved quality of life of the patient.
CCTR, E-manager Chronic Diseases
Over 5.3 million people in the Netherlands have a chronic disease. Chronic diseases have a high impact on the quality of life but also on healthcare costs. Innovative technologies that focus on selfmanagement of chronic diseases are needed more than ever before. For this reason, the Centre for Care Technology Research (CCTR) is going to the develop, implement and evaluate the E-manager Chronic Diseases. This e-manager helps patients and healthcare professionals during consultations easily to measure and visualise the burden of disease, and to set personalised goals that fully fit the patients’ needs. In addition, it motivates and helps patients in everyday life to pursue these goals by providing tailored ecoaching that ties in with the patients’ behavioural state, character and abilities. This development will most likely create healthcare that is more efficient, cost-effective, sustainable and of high quality.
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